x86/hw-breakpoints: Remove the name field

Remove the name field from the arch_hw_breakpoint. We never deal
with target symbols in the arch level, neither do we need to ever
store it. It's a legacy for the previous version of the x86
breakpoint backend.

Let's remove it.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

2 files changed, 0 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h
index 0675a7c4c20e..2a1bd8f4f23a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
  * (display/resolving)
  */
 struct arch_hw_breakpoint {
-        char            *name; /* Contains name of the symbol to set bkpt */
         unsigned long   address;
         u8              len;
         u8              type;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c b/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
index dca2802c666f..41e08dff0161 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
@@ -344,13 +344,6 @@ int arch_validate_hwbkpt_settings(struct perf_event *bp,
         }
 
         /*
-         * For kernel-addresses, either the address or symbol name can be
-         * specified.
-         */
-        if (info->name)
-                info->address = (unsigned long)
-                                kallsyms_lookup_name(info->name);
-        /*
          * Check that the low-order bits of the address are appropriate
          * for the alignment implied by len.
          */